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Title: To Mrs Page
Author: Whaley, John
Attribution: J. Whaley, Norwich
Date(s): 172- ?
Manuscript: Lt 110
Contents: Address to a Mrs Page, describing places in the Norfolk countryside, concentrating especially on Houghton Hall, the seat of Sir Robert Walpole, and on the works of art it contains, and ending with a lament on the death of Lady Walpole; with
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Title: On a Lady's weeping to hear the Fair Penitent read
Author: Whaley, John
Date(s): 1732 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 106
Contents: Poem comparing the reactions of two women listening to a reading of Nicholas Rowe's tragic play "The Fair Penitent", one gloating over Calista's faults, the other sympathetic. Ends with a plea to the sympathetic "Lady" to gain a moral lesson from
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